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" ATENT OFFICE.

` HENRY J. I-IAlGHT, OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

POULTRY-COOP.

sPEcIrcATIoN forming part; of Letters Patent No. 270,307, dated January 9, 1ste.

Application tiled July 31, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY J. HAIGH'I, of the city, county, and State oftNew York, have `invented an Improved Poultry-Coop; 'and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makin 4part of this speciticationthe other side, B, is hinged to the xed side at the upper edge or ridge, so that the lower part thereof may be lifted more or less for ventilation, when required.

A very simple means of adjusting the distance to which the movable roof is raised and held consists in a swinging bar, C, which is pivoted near the middle to tbeadjacent side or wall of the coop. Y lt is held frictionally or t by the balancing of its two ends in an approximately horizontal position when the roof is lowered, and is turned up to a position nearer and nearer a vertical position to raise the roof more and more.

To prevent the escape ofthe fowls or chickens through the roof when the side B is raised,

I employ a grate or lattice, I, covering that side of the roof on the inside. This may be so applied as to make it readily removable by two pins, fm m, entering its ends at the top, and a single piu, p, near the middle, at the bottom, entering a hatten, r, or its equivalent, as Shownin Fig. 3.

The upper edge of the fixed side A of the roof has a longitudinal channel or groove, a, formed therein, from end to end, for the purpose oi' collecting any rain-water which may leak in between the two sides of the roof, the hingejoint there preventing any permanent provision against leakage. Any water that collects in this channel will be discharged at either end. The movable roof B also preferably has,vthough not necessarily, a groove, b,

| in its under side, so as to be directly over the groove a when the roof' is closed down. This prevents any passage of the water along'the under surface of the roof side B belowl the channel ct.

The coop has a doorway, c, at one end, ot' suiiicient height and width for hens .to pass in and out. This is closed by a sliding door, D, of peculiar construction, as shown in Fig. l. One part, d, is close or solid, having only ventilating-holes e e therein, which are convenient, but not necessary, since Ventilating-holes may be formed in any other part of the coop. These, however, are near the bottom of the coop; and l have shown additional ventilatinglioles,ff, near the top thereof, for use when it is desired to close down the roof, as above specified. The other part, g, of thedoorisan open fratrie-work, consisting of vertical slats or bars between two horizontal bars at top and bottom, as shown, or the equivalent thereof. The spaces between these vertical slats or bars are wide enough to allow young chickens to pass out and in freely, but only to permit hens to put out their heads as they stand in the doorway. When the door is drawn ,to one side, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1, the doorway is opened, but guarded by the vertical slats or bars, thus allowing the chickens freedom to go out. When the door is pushed back into the position shown by dotted lines in the same ligure, the doorway is closed tothe chickens also. A pin, h, is driven into a hole in the door, extending into the doorway, and limits the movement ot' the door in either direction. If the door is to be taken away entirely, the pin is taken out. Other means of limiting the movements of the door may be used; but this is simple and cheap, and can, like other parts of the coop, be made of wood by a carpenter or any one who can use wood-Working tools.

Over the doorway l locateva shade-board, F. It is made removable, so that, when desirable, the sun may be allowed to shine into the doorway. I construct and arrange the shade-board in a very simple and easy Way. Its inner edge rests on a cross-beam, i, of' vthe coop, and it has a simple dowellpin, l, projecting trom 'this edge to tit into a hole, m', in the wall of the coop, as seen in Fig. 3. I By this simple means loo the shade-board is held securely in place and position, and it is removed by simply drawing it forward. Y

The bottom G of the coop is made in two parts, joined near the middle preferably by a tongue-and-groove joint, as shown at n in Fig. 2. 1t rests on two or more cross -sleepers at .any desirable height from the ground. By

lil'ting up the middle part along the joint thewhole door can at once be removed for clean-A ing, and itis as readily returned to place. The lower side of this door is preferably coated with tar, for obvious reasons, and the upper side,

as well as the whole interior surface of they coop, should be Whitewashed.

On the end of the floor or bottom G next to the doorway c is a saddle, H, for. use in sanding or washing the floor, and for keeping the floor tlat and without warping. This saddle or cleat serves to confine the sand or water on the tloor, and prey'ents the samefrom running down beneath the coop.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent., is-

1. In a poultry-coop, a roof composed of two inclined sides, A B, one 'fixed and the other movable and hinged to the fixed side at the edge of the roof, the said hinged side working in connection with a swinging prop-bar, C, to hohl its lower partat different. lreightssubstantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. In combination with the movable root'side B, the grate or lattice under the same, substantially as and for-the purpose herein specified.

3. A poultry-coop having a root' composed of 3 5 a fixed side, A, and a movable side, B, hinged to the fixed side, the upper edge ot' the tixed side being provided with a groove, a, forming a gutter to discharge the water leaking in under the movable side at the ends of the coop, substantially as herein specited.

4. ln a poultry-coop, a sliding door, D, having double the width of the doorway c, one halt' of the door being close and the other halt provided with bars and slats, and the door being so limited in its slidingmovement as to bring either the close or the slatted part opposite to the doorway, substantially as and for the purpose herein spceitied.

5. A poultry-coop having a removable shadeboard, F, supported in position by a ledgef or cross-beam, t', and a pin, l, on the edge ot' the shade-board, to enter a hole in the coop, substantiallyas and for the purpose herein speci tied.

HENRY J. HAIGHT.

Witnesses JOHN ELLER, v DAVID G. VREELAND. 

